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    The Aleph and Other Stories

    Author Jorge Luis Borges
    Read by Castulo Guerra
    Introduction by Andrew Hurley
    Translated by Andrew Hurley
    Notes by Andrew Hurley
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    Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, this collection of stories from the influential Argentinian author contains some of his most fully realized human characters.

    With uncanny insight, Jorge Luis Borges takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her father’s “killer,” and a man awaiting his assassin in a Buenos Aires guest house. This anthology also contains the hauntingly brief vignettes about literary imagination and personal identity collected in The Maker, which Borges wrote as failing eyesight and public fame began to undermine his sense of self.

    Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
    The Aleph and Other StoriesIntroduction by Andrew Hurley

    The Aleph (1949)

    The Immortal
    The Dead Man
    The Theologians
    Story of the Warrior and the Captive Maiden
    A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874)
    Emma Zunz
    The House of Asterion
    The Other Death
    Deutsches Requiem
    Averroës' Search
    The Zahir
    The Writing of the God
    Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth
    The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths
    The Wait
    The Man on the Threshold
    The Aleph
    Afterword

    The Maker (1960)

    Foreword: For Leopold Lugones
    The Maker
    Dreamtigers
    A Dialog About a Dialog
    Toenails
    Covered Mirrors
    Argumentum Ornithologicum
    The Captive
    The Mountebank
    Delia Elena San Marco
    A Dialog Between Dead Men
    The Plot
    A Problem
    The Yellow Rose
    The Witness
    Martin Fierro
    Mutations
    Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote
    Paradiso, XXXI, 108
    Parable of the Palace
    Everything and Nothing
    Ragnarök
    Inferno,     I, 32
    Borges and I

    Museum
    On Exactitude and Science
    In Memoriam, J.F.K.
    Afterword

    A Note on the Translation
    Acknowledgments
    Notes to the Fictions

    Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was an Argentine poet, essayist, and author of short stories. His most notable works as a key literary Spanish-language figure of the twentieth century include Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph). He received a BA from the College of Geneva. He was also appointed the director of the National Public Library and professor of English literature at the University of Buenos Aries in 1955. During his lifetime, Borges received the first Prix International Formentor Prize which he shared alongside Samuel Beckett in 1961. He also received the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society in 1971. View titles by Jorge Luis Borges
    "He more than anyone renovated the language of fiction and thus opened the way to a remarkable generation of Spanish-American novelists. Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, José Donoso, and Mario Vargas Llosa have all acknowledged their debt to him." —J.M. Coetzee, The New York Review of Books

    "He has lifted fiction away from the flat earth where most of our novels and short stories still take place." —John Updike

     

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    Full of philosophical puzzles and supernatural surprises, this collection of stories from the influential Argentinian author contains some of his most fully realized human characters.

    With uncanny insight, Jorge Luis Borges takes us inside the minds of an unrepentant Nazi, an imprisoned Mayan priest, fanatical Christian theologians, a woman plotting vengeance on her father’s “killer,” and a man awaiting his assassin in a Buenos Aires guest house. This anthology also contains the hauntingly brief vignettes about literary imagination and personal identity collected in The Maker, which Borges wrote as failing eyesight and public fame began to undermine his sense of self.

    Penguin Classics is the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world, representing a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

    Table of Contents

    The Aleph and Other StoriesIntroduction by Andrew Hurley

    The Aleph (1949)

    The Immortal
    The Dead Man
    The Theologians
    Story of the Warrior and the Captive Maiden
    A Biography of Tadeo Isidoro Cruz (1829-1874)
    Emma Zunz
    The House of Asterion
    The Other Death
    Deutsches Requiem
    Averroës' Search
    The Zahir
    The Writing of the God
    Ibn-Hakam al-Bokhari, Murdered in His Labyrinth
    The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths
    The Wait
    The Man on the Threshold
    The Aleph
    Afterword

    The Maker (1960)

    Foreword: For Leopold Lugones
    The Maker
    Dreamtigers
    A Dialog About a Dialog
    Toenails
    Covered Mirrors
    Argumentum Ornithologicum
    The Captive
    The Mountebank
    Delia Elena San Marco
    A Dialog Between Dead Men
    The Plot
    A Problem
    The Yellow Rose
    The Witness
    Martin Fierro
    Mutations
    Parable of Cervantes and the Quixote
    Paradiso, XXXI, 108
    Parable of the Palace
    Everything and Nothing
    Ragnarök
    Inferno,     I, 32
    Borges and I

    Museum
    On Exactitude and Science
    In Memoriam, J.F.K.
    Afterword

    A Note on the Translation
    Acknowledgments
    Notes to the Fictions

    Author

    Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) was an Argentine poet, essayist, and author of short stories. His most notable works as a key literary Spanish-language figure of the twentieth century include Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph). He received a BA from the College of Geneva. He was also appointed the director of the National Public Library and professor of English literature at the University of Buenos Aries in 1955. During his lifetime, Borges received the first Prix International Formentor Prize which he shared alongside Samuel Beckett in 1961. He also received the Jerusalem Prize for the Freedom of the Individual in Society in 1971. View titles by Jorge Luis Borges

    Praise

    "He more than anyone renovated the language of fiction and thus opened the way to a remarkable generation of Spanish-American novelists. Gabriel García Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, José Donoso, and Mario Vargas Llosa have all acknowledged their debt to him." —J.M. Coetzee, The New York Review of Books

    "He has lifted fiction away from the flat earth where most of our novels and short stories still take place." —John Updike

     

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